Security Assessment of Electricity Distribution Networks Under DER Node Compromises

DOI10.1109/TCNS.2016.2598427MaRDI QIDQ5358519zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Devendra Shelar, Saurabh Amin

Publication date 21 September 2017

Published in IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1601.01342

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Authentication, digital signatures and secret sharing (94A62)

Abstract: This article focuses on the security assessment of electricity Distribution Networks (DNs) with vulnerable Distributed Energy Resource (DER) nodes. The adversary model is simultaneous compromise of DER nodes by strategic manipulation of generation set-points. The loss to the defender (DN operator) includes loss of voltage regulation and cost of induced load control under supply-demand mismatch caused by the attack. A 3-stage Defender-Attacker-Defender (DAD) game is formulated: in Stage 1, the defender chooses a security strategy to secure a subset of DER nodes; in Stage 2, the attacker compromises a set of vulnerable DERs and injects false generation set-points; in Stage 3, the defender responds by controlling loads and uncompromised DERs. Solving this trilevel optimization problem is hard due to nonlinear power flows and mixed-integer decision variables. To address this challenge, the problem is approximated by a tractable formulation based on linear power flows. The set of critical DER nodes and the set-point manipulations characterizing the optimal attack strategy are computed. An iterative greedy approach to compute attacker-defender strategies for the original nonlinear problem is proposed. These results provide guidelines for optimal security investment and defender response in pre- and post-attack conditions, respectively.

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